Conference Learning Objectives:
- Formulate new processes to build better relationships with clinical leaders.
- Outline the methods to best ensure that pricing is competitive and data is accurate.
- Identify strategies to leverage your supply chain to drive margin improvement through collaboration.
- Identify proven methods of clinical services streamlining and efficiencies that can positively impact your organization’s expenses.
- Explore how the evolving healthcare landscape is changing market access strategies and commercial models.
- Determine the assets and tools you need to bring to the table to collaborate with ACOs and IDNs.
- Identify the objectives and requirements of CJR bundled payments.
- Describe how to develop reliable, transparent and accurate purchased services benchmarks.
- Define the supply chain challenges facing hospitals and health systems.
- Describe the key drivers influencing healthcare decision makers.
- Discuss components of vertically integrated supply chain in healthcare
- Demonstrate value to clinicians and develop stronger collaborative partnerships and a deeper understanding of value analysis.
- List the ways your current process can use evidence-based outcomes.
- Compare the inherent differences between hard and soft savings.
- Describe strategies for aligning Supplier Diversity with your organization’s strategy.
- Define methods for creating a management structure that fosters innovation as well as alignment with your strategic plan.
- Analyze the decisions that need to be made in order for service lines to be truly effective.
- Identify the benefits that the service line model can provide for clinical specialties.
- Explain 2017 changes to Medicare reimbursement and identify operational changes required to implement them.
- Describe three Medicare reimbursement challenges and complexities in your practice setting.
- List the compliance requirements for Medicare and how they apply to the 2017 changes to Outpatient Prospective Payment Systems (OPPS).
- Analyze and identify the factors contributing to the increase in value-based contracting in the pharmaceutical industry.
- Outline the potential methods for implementing value-based contracting.
- Compare the risks and rewards that make value-based contracting a complex solution.
- Explain the importance of understanding change and common responses to it.
- Specify new methods of effective leadership through change.
- Define the role of leaders and entrepreneurs in the process of continuous improvement in an organization.
- Analyze the qualities that effective and respected leaders must possess.
- Demonstrate understanding of how to foster a strong work ethic among your team.
- Assess best practices and methods for managing millennials.
- Explain the importance of making the professional growth of leaders and staff a priority.
- Describe the steps needed to implement effective development and training of leaders and staff.
- Identify the importance of a succession plan for the future of your organization.
- Discuss the necessity of working with Revenue Cycle Teams in cross functional programs.
- Describe the role of pharmacy leaders in educating their health systems on the impact of OPPS changes including bundled payments, waste billing, Observation Stay changes, etc.
- Discuss a basis for new practitioners and clinicians to understand the financial aspect of healthcare, a topic not often covered during their formative training.
- Describe the definition and scope of biosimilars in today’s medical marketplace.
- Compare and contrast the differences and similarities between biosimilars and generic drugs
- Discuss the future role of biosimilars and their potential effect on pharmaceutical organizations.
- Compare the risks and benefits of CI networks.
- Identify the guidelines in the Affordable Care Act that have led to an increase in CI networks.
- Analyze the components of a successful CI network and the role that hospital pharmacies play in their success.